Reducing Gender-Based Violence in Public Transportation: Strategy Design for Mexico City, Mexico

Gender-based violence on public transportation in Mexico City, Mexico, is a growing concern. Current efforts to counteract the violence have focused on transit vehicles for exclusive use by women and children and campaigns to promote the report of offenses. To characterize the problem, this study conducted a transit user survey, workshops with transit users, interviews with operators, and interviews with experts in the field. The study found that, even though transit users believed that the gender-exclusive transport service reduced problematic encounters, they did not view the service as a solution to the problem of gender-based violence. Transit users would prefer to see the problem addressed through a combination of interventions including social marketing, mobile phone reporting systems, and transit service upgrades. Government agencies acknowledged that gender segregation and current reporting systems were only partially successful, and nongovernmental organizations and private operators agreed. Those agencies added that they were ready to contribute to the effort to find solutions to the problem. Study recommendations included (a) a communication campaign to foster better social behavior by passengers; (b) the use of technology, such as cell phone applications, to enable users to report offenses; and (c) the further investigation of the potential for new technology-based niche transportation services to address particular markets that were unsafe.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/2531-22
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309369541
• Authors:
  • Rivadeneyra, Aldo Tudela
  • Dodero, Abel Lopez
  • Mehndiratta, Shomik Raj
  • Alves, Bianchi Bianca
  • Deakin, Elizabeth
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 187–194
• Monograph Title: Socioeconomics, Sustainability, Health, and Human Factors
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2531
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crimes aboard public vehicles; Gender; Public transit; Transportation safety; Violent crimes
• Geographic Terms: Mexico City (Mexico)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01551763
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309369541
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-3647
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:24AM